By Steve Sailer
05/31/2018
Roseanne Barr may well have gotten Obamaās Iran-born righthand woman Valerie Jarrett, who isnāt at all distinctly black-looking (especially after all the work she appears to have had done), confused with Hillaryās Saudi-raised righthand woman Huma Abedin, who has often been accused of having ties with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Stir in a few Ambien and a comedienneās knack for non-sequitur connections ā¦
Everybody is assuming āplanet of the apesā is a metaphor for sub-Saharan Africans. (Why?) But Iād hardly be surprised if Roseanne used it instead as a metaphor for Jarrettās unrealistic-looking make-up and plastic surgery, topics that Roseanne likely thinks about a lot. (The recent revival of The Planet of the Apes franchise used excellent computer generated imagery, but the famous original 1968 version, which came out when Roseanne was a teen, used blatant rubbery masks.)
Iām not an expert on Roseanne, but I bet she now and then makes mean jokes about what other ladies of a certain age (Jarrett is 61, four years younger than Barr) do to try to stave off the ravages of time.
Do you think Roseanne thinks about plastic surgery on occasion? From The New York Times in 1996:
After Nips And Tucks, What Is āRoseanneā?
By CARYN JAMES OCT. 8, 1996For the last few years the sitcom āRoseanneā and the star Roseanne have been dancing around a tricky question, How can a rich, powerful, surgically revamped Hollywood star remain a working-class heroine? This season the show is confronting that question with a plot twist that might be the smartest, or the worst, thing the show ever did. The fictional Conner family won the lottery, $108 million worth. Roseanne Conner had a fast, tongue-in-cheek plan for spending the cash. āIām getting me a ton of plastic surgery,ā she said.
The real Roseanne has already been there, of course. In the eight years since her show began, she has transformed herself from a stand-up comic making jokes about being a domestic goddess in a trailer park into a glitzy celebrity trailing gossip wherever she goes. She has turned into a one-name wonder, like Cher or Madonna. And she has transformed her face, as every weekās opening credits proudly display. In a series of photographs from the showās beginning to now, Roseanne, after about a ton of plastic surgery, comes to resemble a distant relative of her former self.